It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry

About It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry

"It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" is a song written by Bob Dylan, that was originally released on his album Highway 61 Revisited. It was recorded on July 29, 1965. The song was also included on an early, European Dylan compilation album entitled Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits 2. An earlier, alternate version of the song has been released, in different takes, beginning with the appearance of one take on The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991 in 1991. "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" has been covered by numerous artists, including The Grateful Dead, Super Session featuring Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield and Stephen Stills, The Allman Brothers Band, Marianne Faithfull, Jerry Garcia, Stephen Stills, Iain Matthews, Leon Russell, Little Feat, Chris Smither, Taj Mahal, Steve Earle, Levon Helm, Toto, Tracy Nelson, Blue Cheer & Bun E. Carlos. more »

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1969

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(Bob Dylan)
I got on a train
I can't buy a thrill
Well I been up all night, child
Leaning on a window sill
But if I die on top of the hill
If I don't make it I-I know my baby will
Walk over.

Who look good
All shining through the trees
Why don't that baby look good, ma
When it's banging down the double E
Why don't the sun look good
Going down over the sea
Cause I got me a good one
And she's a-coming after me.

But every time that she coming
There goes fuel exhaust
I wanna tell everybody but I
I could not get across
I wanna be your lover, babe
I don't wanna be your boss
Don't say I never warned you
When your train gets lost.

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Blue Cheer

Blue Cheer was an American rock band that initially performed and recorded in the late 1960s and early 1970s and was sporadically active until 2009. Based in San Francisco, Blue Cheer played in a psychedelic blues-rock style, and is also credited as being pioneers of heavy metal (their cover of "Summertime Blues" is sometimes cited as the first in the genre), punk rock,stoner rock,doom metal,experimental rock, and grunge. According to Tim Hills in his book, The Many Lives of the Crystal Ballroom, "Blue Cheer was the epitome of San Francisco psychedelia." Jim Morrison of The Doors called the group "The single most powerful band I've ever seen." more »

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